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Identifier: gri_c00033125001412929 (find matches)
Title: Colour in woven design
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Beaumont, Roberts, 1862-1924
Subjects: Color in the textile industries Textile design
Publisher: London : Whittaker & Co. New York : D. Van Nostrand
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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signs are constructed; and, second, how the texturalresults are acquired. Pig. 30 is a small spotted designcomposed of two plain makes. In constructing these designsthe form of the figuring is primarily sketched out on pointpaper, and the weaves subsequently added. When the twomakes are in contact there must never be more than a floatof three. Having worked out the design on point paperthe next matter to be arranged for is the development of■the ground sections in vertical and the figured parts intransverse lines of colour, as in fig. 31, which is a sketch ofI the textural effect produced by this design. In all design. 194 COLOUR IN WOVEN DESIGN. and transverse lines of fig. 31 have been substituted byneat diagonal effects, and a pattern of more diversified out-line and arrangement obtained. It has been pointed outthat the thread-and-thread scheme of shades yields m thecassimere twill the two effects seen in fig. 32 When theweave runs to the right the black and white diagonal effect
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Fig. 35 runs to the left, and vice versa; so that in preparing thedesigns for the loom it has, in the first place, to be de-cided whether the ground or the figured sections shall bedeveloped in the minute diagonals of shades travelling tothe right. Generally it will be found that this effect ismost suitable for the ground. Some care is requisite incombining the weaves, or numerous irregularities will be SIMPLE COLOURINGS, igr formed at the extremities of the figures or »t «„„i, ■.res as the makes oome in contact 5£U t C Vhen in tb7 6 coIoil™g »«d designing analyzed m the prevmas paragraph is applicable to a large divers Wgoods, ,nci ding ootton> silk> worste Md V;d.ve™ y f Styles for dress staffs and mantlings may be produced inth,s manner. Cotton yarns in these designs produceleryaffect™ patterns. The compact structure and sohd ciroumference of these threads deyelop both series f effe ^with a clearness and prominence that are absent from clothcomposed of woolle

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